Genie Wiley Speaking 

You can see she was so hungry for knowledge and learning.

I love the fact she's having a blast learning.

She smiles so much. She's so much more lively than I ever thought, she is like sunshine

Her story is so heartbreaking. A life of abuse from people that were supposed to protect and nurture her. She went from one horrific situation to another. Helpless, used and abused. There is a lot of shame to go around.

It’s sad she ended up back in government care and never got to grow up in a loving household with a family. In this video she was doing those things but it didn’t last forever. Poor innocent girl

1:48 “I like log” was funny. She’s so cute. It’s obviously NOT cute how damaged she was or what happened to this poor child, but her curiosity and thirst for learning after all that deprivation is inspiring. And yes. It’s cute.

What a good girl and so smart. I wish I could help care for people like her, rescue them, give them better lives, etc.

I think the most incredible part about Genie's story is how despite being told she'll never understand or grasp language after the rescue, she eventually did grasp the concept of it & slowly learned how to loosely speak on top of learning sign language quite thoroughly. Or at least, enough to communicate her own thoughts. That alone is huge, because it displays a faint sense of identity or self. She behaves like an average 2 year old, yet has the emotional capacity of someone who is 8 or so years old when these were filmed. I can see why so many people wanted to research her at the time, admittedly. It just stinks they never thought about the long-term implications of her state. Otherwise they would have not only answered their big hypothesis, but also would have given this individual another chance at life with a support system that would have known how to properly take care of her & help her continue to improve. Thank you for being respectful to Mr and Mrs. Rigler's wishes and not releasing anymore videos. I'd like to imagine it's for the best that Genie's whereabouts + other more minute details stay a mystery as it's nobody's business to stick their nose into her life any further. Let the person live in peace.

Its mind blowing to me how she asks about her father who was her main abuser

Give her all the love she deserves 💛

Despite what she went through she still came out a perfect, innocent, sweetheart.

I wish she would’ve been placed in a loving forever home. It’s heartbreaking to think how she was just passed around. The one person who wanted her was denied and that’s a damn shame!

And yet they abandoned her yet again. They gave up on her too easily, she’s a smart girl.

Dude she made such a crazy amount of progress!!! For how deprived she was 😢 I can’t believe they just deemed her a failure and locked her away again 😔 how much that would have hurt her!

I think she could have done so much more if they treated her like a human being and not an experiment. Never understood why the mother was allowed to regain legal custody after what happened. True, the mother was also being abused by the father, but still. I think one of her therapists applied to become her foster mother but was rejected because she "hogged" her from the other researchers. Well maybe that was a good thing. She was a child, not an experiment.

I've actually been crying for the past like 15 minutes watching this video. Not many things in this world I have actually shed a tear for but the story of Genie Wiley is just so fucking sad, tragic, heartbreaking and devastating. My brain literally cannot comprehend this level of child abuse. I can't fathom it. What a poor poor beautiful soul. What a poor sweetheart. I have a niece that's 13 years old right now, and Genie when she was discovered and rescued at the same age was a FAR CRY from normally developed 13 year olds, mentally and physically. 4 feet tall and 59 pounds, could barely even walk or outstretch her limbs. Severely malnourished. It just makes my heart cry. I only pray and hope that today in 2023 she knows some semblance and some SENSE of happiness and joy.

i'm L.A. born and raised and so i knew about this story long before the internet and this was fascinating. i've seen plenty of footage of GENIE but it was always silent this is the first time i ever heard her actually speak. i wish there was more of it.

The mother should of never got custody of her or allowed to sue

What a precious girl. I feel so bad for her. I'm glad she was removed from that situation but so horrible it happened in the first place 😢

You can tell what a sweet, innocent and curious soul she has. Poor baby. Its unfathomable how someone would isolare and hurt such a precious little girl. A child is a blessing.

poor girl...her story is so sad

she was such a curious, sweet kid. she deserved so much love. my heart aches

The way she freaked out when she learned the word "dark" I can't believe what happened to this girl

I was sad for this poor girl, I hope she is well

She could‘ve turned out to live such a happy and successful life, and as a very beautiful girl too (which she is anyway). The only people who deserve to be treated like this are the people who treat others this way. I truly hope she was/is able to live a good life now despite what she‘s been through during and after her abuse.

Its so sad she was removed from the care of the therapist.

The really sad thing is she probably could have developed completely "normally" and had a full life, but her extensive abuse and neglect have caused obvious cognitive delays (as well as, I would imagine, extensive PTSD). She never got the opportunity to reach her full potential because of her absolutely despicable father.

It's very precious to see her excitement and energy for life and learning despite her circumstances. I hope she's doing okay now, wherever she is.

NO one deserves to go through what she went through!

00:58 she looks so adorable when she shakes her head after saying “not living”

Man I just wanna give her a hug. What happened to her was messed up on so many levels. I hope she’s happy/happier where she is today and is being taken care of by truly loving and caring people

We as human beings failed her. The people who "cared" for her only did so to exploit her and further their careers. They intentions were seflish first. She needed a loving home with stability and real honest parenting and nurturing. Instead they rail roaded her. This story and the specific people who were involved are permanently ingrained in my head with hatred

I have no words for how Genie's story has impacted me. This is the most tragic and heartbreaking, disgusting thing I've ever heard of. How could you do this to a child?! I just want to surround her with all the love in the world and take away all her pain and fear. So much love for this woman. I love you Genie. I'm so sorry for your pain. ❤❤❤❤❤

Just shows how gentle this little beautiful female was. And given a chance how she bloomed. She thirsted for life. May we remember that and her in our own lives in times of ingratitude.

This precious girl deserves everything good in the world.

She is now 66 years old

The stories of her communicating with people without words amazes me. From the nurse knowing she wanted a bucket to the butcher knowing she wanted to feel the texture of the meat. How she communicated with these people without saying a word if baffling.

Makes me cry, she needed a home, a real home. she needed to be loved.

I always found it interesting that Genie asked to see her father in spite of her father being dead and especially in spite of how he treated her. She didn’t seem to have any resentment at all towards him.

What a sweet girl. Despite the heartbreaking truth of her origin and where she ended up, it's good to see her happy for the time she spent in a better world. I wish that, in situations where people have disabilities or, in this case, developmental problems due to being deprived of essential social connection and exposed to horrific abuse, they were treated differently than how many are. I absolutely don't blame the scientists and caregivers, I know they meant no harm, but it breaks my heart a little when grown people are talked to like toddlers. Obviously, you have to have to meet them at their levels and capabilities, but I think it's important and healthy for them to be treated with the same respect and recognition as anyone else.

This hurts a lot and made me cry. My daughter is non-verbal and has been in therapy and getting help since she was a baby. Genie had a chance at speech and learning at her age level, and her parents completely took it away from her. Not to mention how unbelievable it was that she wasn't able to stay with the woman who cared so much for her and wanted to help as much as she could.

What a miracle. What a beautiful little blameless sole. God bless her and God must adore her. How wonderful she is. God bless you little one.

I wish i could have taken her place. Beautiful souls like hers,and countless others,are owed complete love and kindness.

Her laugh is precious. 🥰

What a lovely child.

I have waited years to come across footage of her speaking. What an angel. Tragic circumstances. Thank you for making this video.

God bless this child she suffered so much abuse it is heartbreaking but also these people that are helping restore my faith in humanity

Oh god that is so heartbreaking

wow what a sweetheart. I hope she's doing well and among people who love and support her.

She’s beautiful ❤

It’s so sad that she could’ve had a normal life if her father wasn’t so vile

I hope that now, with her being in her late 60', she has safety love and adequate care to spend the rest of her life peacefully.

Poor girl. Any one of these people should have adopted her. Why was she put back with her monstrous family in that hellish house?! Did her brother ever try to help her when he became an adult?

This poor girl would be a normal functioning woman if she wasn't horrificly abused by her parents. They destroyed her. If they didn't want her, why not give her up for adoption, so she can be loved and raised happily. Why just choose to tie her down to a potty 24/7, for her whole life with them. I think she was 13 when she was rescued and she was made to stay on that potty nearly ALL that time. She was never allowed out of her room, not spoken to, rarely fed and beaten if she did the smallest thing her parents considered wrong. I hope they rot in hell. I send my deepest love to Genie and pray she is, at least, happy now. ❤

A good reminder that we take things for granted. She was encaged and abused and here she was full of life like no one else

She is soo adorable …

horrific abuse still happens today, always be vigilant always be kind

After getting fired from my job back in 2018 and seeing her and 2 others children I volunteer fighting for people like Genie.

She’s so pretty & curious about the outside world. I’m so sad that scientist were treating her like a project for their analysis. I hope she’s happy now or at least safe❤.

It breaks me to think that out there right now there's probably other children who are going through something similar to what she went through or worse and we can't do anything about it because we don't know where they are

I’m glad she’s learning more words faster and quicker!

These were more than likely her fondest memories.

Poor kid, no child should ever go through what she went through

I cry every time I see her 💔

Thank you for posting this video. Great data. And to see documentation for language development research and analysis.

As I am aware that tragic case of human isolation was continued by the USA authorities to conseal their crime in the first place - the fact that there was that tragic case of human isolation for years with no proper actions from the state officials to save this little girl from her horrific family. So, after years of relative freedom, a chance for development and the future, this little girl was closed in some specific institution with no hope for any further development, love and life actually by the state court decision and the state officials decision. Thus, the real criminal from the very beginning have always been the numerous state officials of the USA who resposible for the first - neglectance the child safety at the very beginning of her life, and then who ended her life by returning her into a prison like institution for the same kind of highly restricted existence as she experienced in the home of her parents.

This Type of work is hard and takes incredible patience. I did it for a time so I have the utmost respect for these educators working to help this individual.

It wasn't just her parents that failed her. We as a society failed her as well.

i dont know... but, getting to know this case, this person, it makes me wanna go back in the past and try to help her, maybe try to be a "friend", someone to help her, take care and spend the time. well, it is what it is... hope she has gotten a better life.

I love how kind they are to her. ❤

incredibly powerful footage .... shes so adorable, so strong and resilient .... really inspirational, although i wish she didnt have to go through what she did .....

Go girl😊 may God bless you much😘

God... She's so sweet...! How evil can mankind be??

Poor little girl🥺, it's heartbreaking

heartbreaking. May her parents rot in hell.

Once in a lifetime gal. I wish I could’ve changed things for her, just exceedingly sad. Her mother was selfish to not have let her go with her researcher. Ever since finding a video on her during a late night internet sojourn in the beginning days of RU-vid, I feel a kinship and protective over her somehow and search her up infrequently. Glad to have come across this footage This was the first of her I ever saw. Always so curious and bright: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-x3kfxz6oLjQ.html

clearly all she wanted to do was learn. tragic, tragic story

That dad is the worst human ever

She is so nice for somebody who was so destroyed

I hope she's happy, wherever she is now.

So she was a science experiment, here we can clearly how Geani was abused, she was laughing, she was happy, and was having a lot of progress in intelligence. Why is bad that they were caring for her and at the same time testing her? This tests helped her a lot and people that say otherwise just don’t want to see the whole picture

Omg 😢 I’m glad she was happy learning things 😢❤ I read about her when I got to know about her from school.

She seemed so HAPPY !!!

Idk, maybe I’m the only one but I see a lot of personality in her despite her difficulties with language… it seems like that personality had already been her and she’s not as “feral” as we’d been made to believe, like she seems social and lively… idk really refreshing footage to see

such a precious lttle soul, god bless her

She s an angel. God bless her.❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏

This is very very Sad. Terrible what happened to her! Don't see how anyone could abuse a child! May God bless her give her peace ,joy,love, happiness!

This the first time seeing this hopefully she doing ok today in 2023 i hope she being take care of it's sad that she was treated at home 😢

If there actually is a hell, then if her father did not went there, im literally returning my ticket to heaven...

She's so beautiful, her father failed her and this poor girl was very mistreated and this story broke my heart

I just stumbled upon this video and haven't a clue who this person is or what she went through...yet. I do know that as a baby my legs were twisted very hard and my hip was stabbed hard with safety pins. My older sister would claw my eyes and when I tried to cover them she'd attack my tummy with her pounding fists. My mother told her she could. At age eight my mother held me while 4 men violently raped by bottom and my two sisters said a whole lot of cruel evil things. Then, I was threatened to be buried in a woman's back yard unless I forgot everything. I received so much daily torment that I did soon forget, who would even want to remember all that horror. My family told the whole world, even school knew. In 9th grade I watched my mother and the vice principal have intercourse in his office while I cried after getting swatted by his paddle. I could go on an on but that's not why I wanted to share all that trauma I went though. It's that I'm in healthy condition compared to this poor child. I can only imagine what she had to daily endure. I was tricked into thinking my family somehow loved me, though they really didn't. If my family targeted me the way they did then... I can't pray hard enough for this sick world that harbors secret evil so well. It pays for it later though. No getting around that.

It really makes you wanna hug her. Sad😢

OMG.....please God bless her!

she deserved better, poor genie :((

So sad. I heard she spoke in a fast high pitched way to get the words out fast. Kinda like when she was abused, She didn’t want to make sounds in fear of being hurt. It’s sad to see how eager her brain is for learning, she’s hungry for knowledge. She was failed. May she find peace.

how did you get this footage

彼女の顔を見ると感情表情がうまく、特に笑顔はとても可愛いらしいです

Its so sad, here she seems like a happy disabled child with the potential of further development here.

This is both heartbreaking and heartwarming to see 😢❤ so much suffering she’s been through for over 13 years in a dark room with no sensory input or socialising with anyone more then short times while feeding or abuse. 😭🤯 I saw another video about genie wiley more about the background fact and what happened when she was born. And that it was some speculation that she had some sort of developmental disability / special needs, from birth, She was living “normal” at least more around her parents until she was around 3 years old and that was when she was kept in that room. And I do understand that because of this is such a hard and difficult case of abuse and neglect, and she didn’t socialise with anyone and her social skills and she never learned basic skills. And I know many people have the “theory” of that she might actually be on the autism spectrum, because of there is a lot of “symptoms” but that can also be caused by the abuse and neglect cause she never had any sense of reality. Her world was that empty dark room for 13 year. I can’t understand parents can do such horrible things to their own children. And I know this is a old case and storyline, and I hope we will never see such a tragedy case again😭❤️ I’m so devastated that the father killed him self and the victims never got justice for what the father did to them💔😓

To know that she was deprived of leaning much more again after this time period show when she had endured so much for the beginning of her life already is just heartbreaking